Garment



GARMENT Filed March 29. 1923 Patented July .22, 1924.

ROBERT W. CELLARS, OF DELAWARE, OHIO.

GARMENT.

Application filerl March 29, 1923. Serial No. 628,506.

To aZZ wlwm it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT 7. CnLLARs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Delaware, in the county of Delaware and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a full, clear. and e-Xact description,

This invention relates to means for securing upper and nether garments together, as for example children7s garments, and its chief object is to provide means which can be easily manipulated to fasten and unfasten the garments and which will withstand rough usage. ln carrying out the invention in the preferred manner two belts are employed, one encircling the upper garment at the waist line and permanen'tly secured thereto, and the other encircling the nether garment but removable therefrom. The two belts are connected by loops of stiif wire which may take the form of rings carried by the inner belt and extending through slits in the nether garmentfor engagement with the outer belt which may be provided with suitable means, as for eX- ample an ordinary buckle, to fasten its two ends together.

The embodiment outlined above is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is av view showing a boyls 'blouse or waist and trousers secured together by means of my improved devices, a part of the outer belt and upper portion of the trousers being cut away toshow the inner belt;

Fig. 2 is a detail view, on a larger scale, showing the inner belt and the stiif Wire ring secured thereby to the upper garment;

Fig. 3 is a detail section, on the same scale as Fig. 2 and taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In the construction illustrated the upper garment 10, shown as a childs waist or blouse, is provided with an inner belt 11 stitched or otherwise permanently secured to it at the waist line. This belt may be of any suitable material, as for example the cloth of which the blouse itself is made,

and serves to fasten upon the garment a circumferential series of loops 12, as indicated in Fig. 2, for example, wherein theI loop 12 is shown as encircling the belt hut held in place thereby and prevented from shifting sidewise by the rows of stitching 13 which also serve to secure the belt to the garment, The loops are preferably made of wire heavy or stff enough to stand the roughest usage without 'bending or being otherwise deformed, but they are, however, mounted on the garment pivotally, so to speak, to permit them to fold flat under pressure and thus prevent injury to the wearer by falls and other accidents. The nether garment 14, shown as a pair of short trousers,is provided at the waist line, near the upper edge, with a circ-umferential series of Vertical slits 15 to receive the wire loops or rings 12, as in Figs. 1 and 3. The outer belt 16 extends around the garment and through the loops as in Fig. 1.. Upon reflection it will be seen that the wire loops can be passed through the slits more easily even than a button through a button-hole,

and thus can be manipulated by small children; with the further advantage that when the o-uter belt is in place the loops cannot be unbuttoned by rough-and tumble play. Moreover, although Vthe rigid loops can be manipulated like buttons their capability of folding flat upon the garment makes them as harmless and as little liable to injure the wearer as ordinary but-tone.

The invention is descri'bed as applied to garments for children but it can be used to advantage on garments for more mature persons. It is also to be understood that the construction illustrated and described herein can be modified without departure from the spirit of the invention as defined by the appended claim. The rings or loops 12 are preferably made of metal wire, but they may be stamped out of sheet metal, or may be made of celluloid or other material of suitable Character.

I claim:

In an article of apparel, upper and lower garments, a portion of one overlapping part of the other, a series of loops of fiXed form spaced around the underneath part of the one garment, a belt encrclng said underneath part and passng through said loops, said belt being seoured to saidv part at the sdes of said loops, thereby pvotally attachng said loops to said part, the overlappng porton of said other garment being signature,

ROBERT W. CELLARS. 

